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DOI 10.1007/s10973-013-3494-4
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Title (Primary) Chip-calorimetric monitoring of biofilm eradication with bacteriophages reveals an unexpected infection-related heat profile
Author Morais, F.M.; Buchholz, F.; Hartmann, T.; Lerchner, J.; Neu, T.R.; Kiesel, B.; Harms, H.; Maskow, T. ORCID logo
Source Titel Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
Year 2014
Department UMB; FLOEK
Volume 115
Issue 3
Page From 2203
Page To 2210
Language englisch
Keywords Chip-calorimetry; Biofilm; Bacteriophage; Phage infection; Microbial interaction; Pseudomonas putida
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Abstract Bacteriophages or phage-derived biological structures are a promising alternative to the application of antibiotics to eradicate biofilms. These countermeasures are highly cell specific. For a better understanding of the sequence of the underlying processes (attachment, infection, multiplication, phage release), for optimization of phage applications, or simply for screening of suitable phages or phage-derived enzymes, real-time monitoring devices are urgently required. Calorimetry is promising because it is non-invasive and quantitatively connected to the metabolic fluxes. Chip-calorimetry provides real-time information about biofilm eradication by phages. This was confirmed by comparison with reference analyses (i.e., confocal laser scanning microscopy, colony plate counts, or phage titre determination). Furthermore, chip-calorimetry provides additional information which was not captured by the reference methods such as the enhanced cellspecific heat production caused by the infection process and a residual activity of seemingly persistent bacteria.
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Morais, F.M., Buchholz, F., Hartmann, T., Lerchner, J., Neu, T.R., Kiesel, B., Harms, H., Maskow, T. (2014):
Chip-calorimetric monitoring of biofilm eradication with bacteriophages reveals an unexpected infection-related heat profile
J. Therm. Anal. Calorim. 115 (3), 2203 - 2210 10.1007/s10973-013-3494-4